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It was in reference to this battle that he wrote the inscription for the banner, "Veni, vidi, vici" The words may be rendered in English, "I came, looked, and conquered," though the peculiar force of the expression, as well as the alliteration, is lost in any attempt to translate it. In the mean time, Caesar's prosperity and success had greatly strengthened his cause at Rome.
"Necropolis" is a strange affectation when "City of the Dead" was at hand; and "pointing to the pale piles" is a hideous alliteration. How fine is the sentence, "taking me to her death-cold bosom, and holding me with arms of bone," and that of the tombstones, "in a glimmer more hoary than moonlight" Coleridge might have used such a phrase in the Ancient Mariner or in Christabel.
And since she has mine undivided and I never have any part of hers, the division is a hard one to me." This influence was continued in Middle English lyric poetry. These lyrics are often lacking in polish; the tendency to use alliteration as an ornament has nothing to do with such occasional troubadour examples of the trick as may be found in Peire d'Auvergne.
It is not only that this is bad in itself; but that it is unworthy of the company in which it is found; that such verses should not have appeared with the name of a good versifier like Lord Lytton. We must take exception, also, in conclusion, to the excess of alliteration.
Pinton. If you are born that way, all the punishments and preachments excuse the alliteration will not stand in your way as a warning. I have done time I mean I have served several terms of imprisonment, but luckily not for a long period. I suffered most by my incarceration in not having a piano.
The alliteration of modesty and merit is pretty enough; but where merit is great, the veil of that modesty never disguises its extent from its possessor. It is the proud consciousness of rare qualities, not to be revealed to the every-day world, that gives to genius that shy, reserved and troubled air, which puzzles and flatters you, when you encounter it.
Those girls are a strange study: the young one is a simple, earthly creature, as common as an oat-field and the other a sort of sylvan life: fierce, flashing, feline " Alma burst out into a laugh. "What apt alliteration! And do they like being studied? I should think the sylvan life might scratch." "No," said Beaton, with melancholy absence, "it only-purrs." The girl felt a rising indignation.
In Low-Latin, indeed, we find occasionally alliteration, rhyme, and a fixed number of syllables, but these novelties are obviously of foreign origin, and date from the time when the Romans borrowed them from the nations which they called barbarous.
"He is not so facile to forget as ready to revenge," said poor Wilkes, with neat alliteration. "My very heavy and mighty adversary will disgrace and undo me. "It sufficeth," continued Leicester, "that her Majesty both find my dealings well enough, and so, I trust will graciously use me.
What earthly reason could that old wretch " "I'm the earthly reason." "Ella, don't tantalize me." "Well, that misguided little boy, who must stand six feet in his stockings, had the preposterous presumption there's alliteration for you, but nothing else is equal to the case to ask papa if he might pay his addresses to me. Isn't that the conventional phrase?
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